Thursday, March 28

1996 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Director Winner and Nominees

1996 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Director Winner

Leaving Las Vegas Mike Figgis

Leaving Las Vegas

Mike Figgis

Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera..

1996 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Director Nominees

Georgia Ulu Grosbard
Georgia
Ulu Grosbard
Nadja Michael Almereyda
Nadja
Michael Almereyda
Safe Todd Haynes
Safe
Todd Haynes
The Secret of Roan Inish John Sayles
The Secret of Roan Inish
John Sayles